4 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Pueblo, CO wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 2, 2:00 AM MST, 10 hours 26 minutes earlier.
SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO COLORADO 300 AM MDT FRI AUG 2 2002 MAIN ISSUE THIS CYCLE WILL BE POPS. CWFA CURRENTLY PRECIPITATION FREE ALONG WITH SOME MID AND HIGH CLOUDS...MAINLY OVER WESTERN SECTIONS. LATEST MODELS CONTINUE TO SUGGEST THAT PATTERN CHANGE UNDER WAY AS UPPER HIGH MIGRATES FROM EASTERN COLORADO THIS MORNING TO MISSOURI BY TONIGHT AND INTO ILLINOIS BY LATER SUNDAY. GFS INDICATES THAT 500 MB HIGH REMAINS GENERALLY EAST OF CWFA INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK WITH 850/700 THETA-E VALUES INCREASING RATHER SIGNIFICANTLY BY THIS AFTERNOON AS COMPARED TO THURSDAY AFTERNOON AND THEN REMAINING HIGH INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK...THEREFORE INHERITED FORECAST OF POPS INTO NEXT WEEKS APPEARS FINE. AS UPPER HIGH BUILDS BACK INTO COLORADO BY LATE WEEK WARMING TEMPERATURES AND DECREASING POPS SEEMS THE WAY TO GO. .PUB...NONE.
COZ058>081-022000- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1200 PM MDT FRI AUG 2 2002 ...THE HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTHEAST AND SOUTH CENTRAL COLORADO THROUGH 7 AM TOMORROW... ...SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED... ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE IS EXPECTED TO INCREASE ACROSS THE REGION AS THE DAY PROGRESSES...DUE TO A RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE MIGRATING EAST OF THE REGION. THIS WILL ALLOW LOW LEVEL MOIST SOUTHERLY FLOW TO DEVELOP...WHICH WILL ENHANCE SCATTERED SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT OVER THE MOUNTAINS AND ADJACENT PLAINS. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP OVER THE MOUNTAINS AREAS BETWEEN 100 PM AND 200 PM. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST PLAINS AFTER 300 PM. SOME OF THESE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE MOUNTAIN AREAS MAY PERSIST PAST MIDNIGHT.
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 132 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:24 UTC.
4 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
A small, weak, short-lived tornado caused no known damage.
A small, weak tornado caused no known damage.
A small, weak tornado caused no known damage.
A fourth small, weak, short-lived tornado caused no known damage.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Colorado in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Colorado, 2002Warnings in Colorado, August 2002
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5312483, 5312484, 5312542, 5312543.